Ahmed Kamal (Egyptologist)
Also known as: Ahmed Bey Kamal
Ahmed Kamāl was a prominent Egyptian Egyptologist and historian, widely regarded as the first native Egyptian Egyptologist.
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Ahmed Kamal (Egyptologist): Egyptian Museum
He trained under the German Egyptologist Heinrich Brugsch. He was a curator at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and a staff member of the Supreme Council of Antiquities.
Ahmed Kamal (Egyptologist): Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922
In the early twentieth century that attitude changed, largely because of Ahmed Kamal, one of the first Egyptian Egyptologists, who raised public awareness of ancient Egyptian history.